– Vinay Kumar
Former India batsman Gautam Gambhir has given the Indian team an idea to blow up Pakistan’s dangerous bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi. Gautam Gambhir says that in the ICC T20 World Cup, 2022, India’s first match will be against Pakistan on 23 October. In that match, India should aggressively face the balls of Pakistani bid Shaheen Shah Afridi. Don’t think about saving wickets.
It is worth noting that due to knee injury, he could not play in the Asia Cup-2022, has now become fit and will take the field against India on 23 October in Melbourne. Remind you that last year in the ICC T20 World Cup, 2021, Shaheen Shah Afridi reminded the Indian team of Nani. Pakistan won that match by 10 wickets. It was the first victory of Pakistan against India in the history of the World Cup.
Gautam Gambhir said in a special program for Star Sports, “Don’t think of saving wickets in front of Shaheen Afridi. Think of scoring runs against him (IND vs PAK T20 World Cup, 2022). When you start playing to save wickets, everything will become very small. Backlift, footwork all. T20 cricket cannot be played with this thinking. I know he (Shaheen Shah Afridi) is a dangerous bowler. But, Indian batsmen will have to score runs against him. India have top 3 or 4 great batsmen who can score runs in front of Afridi.
During this, Irfan Pathan, former seamer of Team India, also told the bowlers of Team India the way to destroy the opening pair of Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan of Pakistan. He said, “Don’t give place to Babar Azam (Captain Pakistan Cricket Team) or Mohammad Rizwan. Rizwan plays very aggressively in the powerplay. Babur takes time. They have to understand their game and bowl.” That is, Indian bowlers will have to dismiss Pakistan’s stalwarts in the powerplay overs at the very beginning.